This week, we focused a lot on our zine cover ideas and critique for them. It was really fun getting to talk to my group about our individual ideas and how we could merge each thought. Everyone in my group has pretty similar ideas but with a personalized twist that has made us work even better as a whole. We all have ideas, that we know, could work together. My first draft of the zine was really rushed because I forgot to do it so I didn’t have time to actually get it done. I did though, take that critique and tried implementing it into my second draft. My second draft was much, much better. I spent quite some time working on it and getting it to look as I wished. I had an idea of making it very simple, yet informative about what would be inside. My zine page includes light colors with a contrast of two bold colors in the center of the page, as well as a flower to symbolize things like beauty and growth.
After getting critique for our first draft and working on our second draft, we were able to present as a group and get individual critique from Luisa (from MCASD). It was interesting getting to do a different process for critique. We usually go through the “Kind, Specific, & Helpful” route, but this time we dove into something more interesting. Our critique sheets had specific questions about certain elements of our zine covers that allowed us to give more useful critique. These questions included how eye-catching our cover was, what message we got through it, and how we could reach out to others in order to make it better.
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Last week’s college trip was a memorable experience that I will never forget. I learned a lot about myself and about those who surrounded me. The way up to San Francisco was really exciting. My advisory and I chose to fly up a day early in order to visit my old advisor (Mr.Bosselman) and get to tour 2 other schools. As we were waiting at the airport I was reminded that it was Idalia and Vanessa’s first airplane ride ever. I was excited for both of them and happy I was able to witness their first one doing something this big. This stuck with me because I am always open to doing new things and I feel that my advisory, as a whole, has allowed me to keep that sense of curiosity in me. Rah-Ben is an amazing advisor and always reminds us that there is way more to the world than just us. Being able to experience new foods, new cultures, and new experiences with my advisor and advisees has been a cool thing that we are able to do throughout the year.
After visiting this trip, I felt more confused than before. I was really expecting to fall in love with one of these schools which was not the case. I was, though, able to pick out things from some schools that I really liked. USF and UCSC were probably the best out of all the schools. USF was located in a really fun part of San Francisco and had good vibes all around campus. UCSC was beautiful and I really liked the way the colleges within one big university worked. Although, I am very confused as to what exactly I am looking for, I now have some pinpoints I would like to focus on. As I mentioned, USF and UCSC were my top two which were then followed by Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Cal Poly had a super nice atmosphere and it was the one more closely focused on what I am interested in as a career. What I disliked about this school was the location it was at. I felt that this was too far from the city and I would not be able to feel comfortable. Not feeling comfortable in a place I could be spending 4 years at could lead to not feeling that relatedness of wanting to be there. Below Cal Poly would be Berkeley. Berkeley was just not what I was looking for or what I expected. I didn’t feel like I belonged there or that I would enjoy spending my time there. SJSU and UC Davis were two of the schools I was not excited about, at all. Neither of them made me have a sense of comfortability which could result in not feeling safe and wanted. Overall, I feel that I learned so much on this trip and I would do it all over again if I could. This week went by really fast but a lot was learned. We deepened our learning in neuroplasticity by conducting visual note taking and making connections with past articles, class discussions, and videos. The videos we watched were both around how our brain can grow, be molded, and rewire itself. Being able to get this information and turn it into simple words, images, or symbols has allowed me to gain a better understanding of the topic. This skill has already helped me in another class. In humanities, we have been reading a book in which I rewrite or draw things that are playing out, this allows me to create a better connection and have a deeper understanding of the things that are happening. After each video we watched, we conducted a class discussion which really allows me to go even deeper into the subject. Hearing other people’s ideas, questions, and comments provokes me to think of new things to think about or to ask.
Having these visual notes to look back at has allowed me to be able to look back at previous discussions and connect them to the current one. I use much of this information to remind others of what we previously spoke about and to think about how it all works together. All the videos we’ve taken notes on the past few weeks relate to each other. Weather I have notes about the teen brain, pruning, or rewiring I am able to look back and see which comes first and what happens after. This week went by super fast but I did many things that caught my attention and would like to learn more about. One of them being, having Dr. Sasha Kauffman coming in and giving us a lecture! We have been looking at the teen brain basically the whole school year. We were taught how our brain reacts to issues around us, in The Power Within, and are now learning about how those issues affect us in a deeper more complex way. It was really interesting getting a summary, of what we have been learning, by a professional. I felt proud that I was able to keep up with his words, ideas, and hypothesis about what is yet to be discovered. Dr. Sasha Kauffman specializes in the difference between the male and female brain. Hearing his research, was able to give me an inside look as to why opposite genders handle the same issues or situations differently. One of the things that really struck me about him was that he was able to connect his own research to other areas of study.
Having this lecture was able to give me a little inside look of what a class in college could be like. This week, I also visited Chapman University and UC Irvine where I was able to gain and experience how it’s like around two different types of campuses. I was able to make connections as of what kind of learning I am looking for in a college campus. Both Chapman and UC Irvine are very big on research which is something I was able to find helpful as I thought about the lecture with Dr. Sasha Kauffman. |
AuthorMy name is Valeria Aguilar and I'm currently a Junior at HTHcv. Read these blog posts to know a little more about my experience! Archives
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